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Cookie Jars & Misc. Kitchen Collectibles

Cookie jars are typically the number one search term in hot lists online, find out more about collecting cookie jars, as well as other fun kitchen stuff!
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Collecting Cartoon and Promotional Glasses

Glass collecting is a big cross-over collectible. Sports, cartoons, characters, movies, are all depicted on promotional glasses and sought by collectors specializing in those fields. Glasses can fit into all collecting budgets from a dollar or two, to glasses costing hundreds of dollars.

Cookie Jar Auction Prices

The following are a sampling of prices for the May 2010 Cookie Jar auction held by Mickelson Auction House

Cookie Jar Crafts

Have you broken a cookie jar lid? Or perhaps found a bargain at the flea market, but didn't know what to do with it? When you have many hundreds of jars like I do, a few lidless jars will always creep into the collection.

Corning Ware Collecting

Corning Ware has been a staple in the American kitchen since the late 1950s. In the sixties and seventies when you got married or started setting up a kitchen you got Corning Ware, it's as simple as that.

And when you think about Corning Ware, the Blue Cornflower design is what typically comes to mind. That design only lasted thirty years, no wonder we all know it!

Gifts for Kitchen Collectors

As a cookie jar collector, I am always looking for related cookie and kitchen items. Here are a few things recently found online, I've already ordered one myself!

My Little Red Cookie Cutters

Bron Gibson's Story of her Little Red Cookie Cutters and her fondest childhood memories

Reproductions and Fakes -- Cookie Jars

Be wise and beware when it comes to reproductions!

Resources for Collecting Little Red Riding Hood

When looking at Little Red Riding Hood jars for sale at online auctions sometimes they can all start looking the same. But not to an avid collector! There are differences and as far as values go - it's all in the details.

Check resources, find out what's rare and what not and never, ever buy a "McCoy" Little Red Riding Hood jar.

Roseville Pottery

Although Roseville jars look similar to each other, there are five different shapes -- check the handles to see the biggest difference in the designs.

Top 10 Cookie Jar Resources

Everyone smiles when they see a cookie jar collection! Many are transported back to their grandma's kitchen and getting home baked cookies from that special jars. And that's how many jar collections get started, collecting their childhood memories!

Top Mistakes Made by Cookie Jar Collectors

Top mistakes made by cookie jar collectors, learn from my mistakes

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